U.S. puts hopes in bedraggled Afghan police
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 19:11
in Biology & Nature
If the U.S. is to succeed in seizing control of Kandahar — the country's second-largest city — from the Taliban this summer, improving the performance of the police will be at the heart of the effort. Afghan national police checkpoint No. 4, substation 3, is a blighted shell of a building ringed by garbage and shaded by scruffy trees whose leaves are coated...